Maroon 5: The Best Songs from "Hands All Over." (2010)

Before giving the Maroon 5 music album "Hands All Over" a listen, I was indeed familiar with some of their singles. However, I have never listened to one of their albums all of the way through. What inspired me to choose this one? I saw lead singer Adam Levine on the television show "The Voice" and decided to pick out the newest at the time album from his band to see what they were about.

The best songs on "Hands All Over," are: "Hands All Over" and "Give A Little More," with the tracks "Never Gonna Leave This Bed," "Out Of Goodbyes," and "Misery," probably the next ones in line. However, for my own personal taste, the only song I really kind of dug was the title song "Hands All Over."

Here are my quick notes about each song on the Maroon 5 album "Hands All Over." By the way, I think the cover art image is pretty cool.

"Misery": A pop rock song that could be simply catchy if it were your first introduction into the sound of Maroon 5. However, if laid out next to their entire body of work I personally would not remember it over any other songs or be able to really tell the difference very quickly between them if you started one up. A pop of fun I guess.

"Give A Little More": Funky out of the gates, but a smooth fizzle down into your ears. This one was better than the opening track, with the statements it makes in regards to getting the relationship being sung about into optimal working order. I liked it, not one I would download or anything though.

"Stutter": A cute song that ends up being more like a bland "American Idol" audience type of pleasure.

"Don't Know Nothing": I don't know nothing about picking music apart, not really. I just know what I like and what I don't. I know this song doesn't do anything for me.

"Never Gonna Leave This Bed": I liked this lyric: 'ËœThe perfection of your face slows me down." This song is softer than the previous tracks of the album and I actually find the song stronger in the parts that are NOT the chorus, even though the lyrics themselves through the chorus are just as strong, guess it is just how the melody flowed for me.

"I Can't Lie": I enjoyed some of the lyrics, such as "I never did my best to express how I really felt. And now that I know exactly what I want, you found somebody else." Isn't that how it always goes? The way these lyrics are delivered is once again somewhat catchy, but only if one forces themselves to listen. Normally, I would probably label it bland and change the station too quick to give it a chance to hook into my brain.

"Hands All Over": This song made me think of the 80's for a second and flirted with a background taste of old NIN music, but remained in the less rough zone with the nice bass growl in the background. Maybe it is the different sounds of the rock guitars in this one, or perhaps my desire to be touched (ha ha), but "Hands All Over Me" is more listenable and taps into my memory banks with teases of sounds I feel deja vu about. Memory lane is where I always want my music to take me.

"How": Nice if not slightly murderous sentiment portrayed in the lyrics, but they do not mesh together well with the music or delivery for me.

"Get Back In My Life": Woo, woo, woo, no, not really feeling it. Another attempt at getting a hook into your head and I'd fight this penetration off.

"Just A Feeling": I liked the mood being set at first, but then I started imagining a boy band delivering the message as that is the way the music started to slant for me. And I don't just mean a band with boys in it, I mean crappier than crap, crap like Backstreet Boys. I actually started getting annoyed by the repeating of "just a feeling" over and over.

"Runaway": I find a of Maroon 5 lyrics that I like and in this song it was the lines: "What am I supposed to do with these clothes. It's my twisted way of keeping you close." Parts of this song are okay, but I did not really get into it overall.

"Out Of Goodbyes": This song also features Lady Antebellum. It seems like a departure from the rest of the music on the album, which is not exactly a bad thing, but at the same time it ends up being a somewhat generic country song. Clever in the lyrics department and a good song overall, for someone else, not for me.